Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fooling any more, and our enemies have indicated that they want to play rough and dirty. Unless we (American and British) forget "the playing fields of Eton," and the "Rover Boys," we are walking around with our chin hanging...
...Senate Finance Committee last week swung a haymaker on the chin of the U.S. sugar lobby and smashed its House-passed bill (TIME, Dec. 8) to a pulp. The Senate's new bill extended the present sugar act for three years, with no juggling of quotas at all. It increased the subsidy for domestic producers (annual cost to the U.S.: $10,000,000) but contained no rebuff to the offshore producers...
...face at the prow of a beautiful head. . . . Eyes pale with intensity seemed more like hieroglyphics of intelligence than eyes in a face and a somber Semitic nose carved with chastening Polish delicacy supported them. Pale firmly-full lips smiled with nervous sadness over strange teeth, and only the chin was allowed to rest a little from the forward-moving pace of his vitality. It afforded a slight pause in the breathless race to take in the rest. The next minute you realized that its backward movement was controlled with a fierceness that could defeat a Napoleon...
...craggy, pipe-smoking fellow Commissioner Howard L. Vickery, who is largely responsible for construction. This week Jerry Land felt good about production, but a little wary too. Like any other defense administrator, he didn't know when he might be called to the White House, chucked under the chin and told to step up his shipbuilding still further for the sake of some ally...
Saybrook, who meets the Funsters, seems to have taken it on the chin this season, but in spite of this, has a good air attack, with which to tie up the Dunster defenders. Funster hopes will rest mainly on all-House back Don Cole, whose brilliant passing and running have sparked them all year...